Bit of a problem if you've got icmp (and ftp, and...) disabled between
most servers & clients like we have.  Is there anything similar that can
work over the NetBackup ports which obviously will be open?

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:25 AM
To: Ellis, Jason
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line




When doing performance analysis Veritas has given me a utility called
SAS which runs with a few options and creates an .xml file which they
then run through some program which spits out a .pdf.  The tool utilizes
ICMP so its much easier to use than anything port based and its given me
some very good feedback when trying to utilize 100% of our gigabit
pipes.  Between the bpbkar utility and SAS utility I've been able to
identify many bottlenecks and it assists greatly when performance tuning
your network options.  For my money its much better to isolate the local
disk with bpbkar32 > null then the network pipe w/ SAS than to use
bpbkar32 in an actual backup setting and try to read log files.

-Jonathan
 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ellis,
Jason
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:03 PM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line

Got a good one for the group...

We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a
problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems,
thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media
servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to
just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network
like and FTP would.

I know we test the client side locally by running:

bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1> nul 2> nul

I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32
and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One
thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being
passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give
me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great!

Thanks in advanced!

Jason Ellis
Technical Consultant, Backup & Recovery
Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank
Phone: (714) 520-3414



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